ata: printf on every spinup/spindown?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <49BE7C5A.2080103 at icyb.net.ua>, Andriy Gapon writes:

>I am playing with ata spindown feature and I think that it is really unnecessary
>to print a message each time ata driver is going to spindown a disk or let it be
>spinned up:
>ad6: Idle, spin down
>ad6: request while spun down, starting.
>ad6: drive spun down.
>ad6: Idle, spin down
>ad6: request while spun down, starting.

The reason I added the printf was to make it very annoying.

Spinning a disk up and down too often wears it out much faster than leaving
it running.

In general you do not want to spin a disk down unless it is going to stay
spun down for at least 15-30 minutes.

If dmesg is going to spin your disk up, then it will wake up every 5 minutes
due to the atrun message and you are clearly doing it wrong.

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